Differences Between Canada and United States
culture and American culture aren’t too different but aren’t too similar.
The culture in the society seems to be different because like how people say
United States is refered to as “ the great melting pot of society” where
people of all nations join together to form “a more perfect nation”.
Everybody expected to coply with the common community standards to make the
nation strong. So any people from a nation that join Canada forget about their
culture and join American culture. While Canada on the other hand has been
compared to a mosaic, where people are invited to join the nation and still
retain their cultural identities, complete with traditions, languages, and
customs. Like for instance in British Colombia, a person may write their drivers
license in English, French, Chinese, and Punjabi. And in Nunavut, the primary
language of government will be Inuitituk with secondary services available in
English as required.
a lot of people speak French and 20% of the population of Canada is
French-Canadian, on most things not only English is written but so is French.
This can affect the culture in society because in Canada there will be parts of
all different cultures like the clothing, the food, while in United States since
they encourage people to be more into the “American culture” there will be
less of different types of cultures but more of one.
Canada may have more, both Canada and United States have diversity. In Canada
some of the largest ethnic groups are British Isles origin 28%, French origin
23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%,
mixed background 26%. In United States some of the largest ethnic groups are
white 77.1%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1.5%, native
Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.3%, other 4%. As you can see the two
countries have fairly different ethnic groups. Major Religion Groups in Canada
include Roman Catholic 46%, Protestant 36%, other 18% and in United States
Protestant 56%, Roman Catholic 28%, Jewish 2%, other 4%, none 10%.